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Originally, this April 26 a constitutional plebiscite was going to be held. And tonight, in an interview with CNN in Spanish – recorded several days ago – President Sebastián Piñera spoke about the matter.
He acknowledged that the issue is “postponed” by the coronavirus pandemic, but that a new postponement of the plebiscite “has not been discussed.”
However, he pointed out that the economic recession “is going to be so great” that the date of the plebiscite “is perhaps going to be discussed again.” Without going deep.
“We are going to have a very intense election calendar.” Piñera indicated that the plebiscite will coincide with the municipal ones, the plebiscite, the parliamentary primaries and then the presidential ones.
Piñera also referred to the strategy with which his government has faced the coronavirus pandemic, and again defended his concept of the “new normal”.
The Head of State assured that the “old normality” – of physical contact, of group meetings – will take a long time to return, and that measures such as social distancing, the use of masks and confinement will continue “for a long time” . Therefore, he said: “We will have to get used to living with the coronavirus among us.”
In addition, he assured that globally, “the post-coronavirus world will be very different. Many values are going to change. We have recovered the value of the family, the value of the community. We need to live in community, be in solidarity with the community. “
When asked about Covid-19, Piñera said that the basis of his government’s strategy to face the pandemic is to carry out massive rapid tests “is what Chile must do to protect its life, health and income, companies.”
In addition, the Head of State assured that Chile “is the country with the highest test per inhabitants on the continent”, and that 6,288 tests have been carried out per million inhabitants. And he defended his “flexible, dynamic” quarantine strategy, because a total quarantine is “unsustainable”.
However, Piñera said that the rapid tests are “to identify the sick early.”
About the Immunity Cards, he didn’t mention them that way. He did indicate that although these rapid tests “do not give an absolute guarantee of immunity” if someone tests negative, it will allow everyone who comes out of the coronavirus to return to the aforementioned “new normal”.
In this way, the idea according to Piñera is that the recovered can “continue working, continue producing, continue producing basic needs.”
However, today the undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, assured that this card is not to guarantee that the person is immune.
On a more personal level, Piñera revealed how he was reunited with part of his family once the commune where he lives left the quarantined area.
“I haven’t seen my grandchildren in a long time, because they were quarantined in my sons or daughters’ house, and I and my wife were quarantined in our house … a few days ago, quarantine was lifted, we all met and how the different grandchildren were absolutely euphoric, hugged each other, kissed for so long without seeing each other. “
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